AT LITTLE RIVER.
During the past week bush fires were lighted in the Terawera Valley, causing much anxiety, troxible and loss to the 'settlers of the locality. The fires were i kept well under control until Saturday evening, when a strong nor'-wester swept ' the flames from Mr Allen's section across 1 lands owned or occupied by Messrs E. • Watkins, W. H. Montgomery, W. Crump, » Wood and Laurie, P. Fahey, J. Lines, R. ; Paton, J. Johnson and R. Latter. A considerable quantity of fencing was destroyed, and about 400 acres of cocksfoot stubble 1 burnt. A large portion of the land which • the fire passed over will require to be re--1 sowA- The eliie£ sufferer, however, is Mr . Montgomery, who had aboxit 500 bags of I cocksfoot seed destroyed. Had it not been for the rain which fell at eight o'clock on ' Sunday morning the probability is that the whole of the cocksfoot stubble in the Terawera and Okutu Valleys would have been I burnt, if not, indeed, the whole in Little River.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5501, 28 February 1896, Page 3
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172AT LITTLE RIVER. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5501, 28 February 1896, Page 3
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